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Investigation and reduction of fault sensitivity in the FlexRay communication controller registers

Sedaghat, Y ; Sharif University of Technology | 2008

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87698-4_15
  3. Publisher: 2008
  4. Abstract:
  5. It is now widely believed that FlexRay communication protocol will become the de-facto standard for distributed safety-critical automotive systems. In this paper, the fault sensitivity of the FlexRay communication controller registers are investigated using transient single bit-flip fault injection. To do this, a FlexRay bus network, composed of four nodes, was modeled. A total of 135,600 transient single bit-flip faults were injected to all 408 accessible single-bit and multiple-bit registers of the communication controller in one node. The results showed that among all 408 accessible registers, 30 registers were immediately affected by the injected faults. The results also showed that 26.2% of injected faults caused at least one error. Based on the fault injection results, the TMR and the Hamming code techniques were applied to the most sensitive parts of the FlexRay protocol. These techniques reduced the fault affection to the registers from 26.2% to 10.3% with only 13% hardware overhead. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
  6. Keywords:
  7. Communication ; Embedded systems ; Integrated circuits ; Reliability ; Automotive systems ; Bus networks ; Communication controllers ; Communication protocols ; Distributed embedded systems ; Fault injection ; Fault injections ; Fault sensitivities ; Flex- Ray protocol ; Flexray ; Flexray protocols ; Hamming codes ; Hardware overheads ; Safety-critical applications ; Computer networks
  8. Source: 27th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security, SAFECOMP 2008, Newcastle upon Tyne, 22 September 2008 through 25 September 2008 ; Volume 5219 LNCS , 2008 , Pages 153-166 ; 03029743 (ISSN); 3540876979 (ISBN); 9783540876977 (ISBN)
  9. URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-540-87698-4_15